Paul the ‘psychic’ World Cup octopus dead

Posted on October 27, 2010, Wednesday

BERLIN: Paul the octopus, who shot to fame during this year’s football World Cup in South Africa for his flawless record in predicting game outcomes, has died, his aquarium in Germany said yesterday.

“Management and staff at the Oberhausen Sea Life Centre were devastated to discover that oracle octopus Paul, who achieved global renown during the recent World Cup, had passed away overnight,” the aquarium said in a sombre statement.

“Paul amazed the world by correctly predicting the winners of all Germany’s World Cup clashes, and then of the final,” said Sea Life manager Stefan Porwoll. — AFP

Joseph Kallang on FAS’ radar

by Simon Ingka Crown.
The Borneo Post
Posted on October 27, 2010, Wednesday

KUCHING: The Football Association of Sarawak (FAS) is keen to lure midfielder Joseph Kallang back to the state from TTeam Terengganu.

An FAS source said it was likely Sarawak would attempt to sign the talented midfielder to strengthen the Crocs for the 2011 Mleague.

Kallang still has a one-year contract to run with T-Team.

“Should Terengganu FA agree to release him, we will definitely take him back,” the source said.

However, it added, TTeam were not likely to agree to a free transfer for Kallang and the contract between the two FAs on the player’s future movement had to be studied thoroughly.

Persatuan Bola Sepak Sarawak Haram???

KUCHING: Persatuan Bola Sepak Sarawak (FAS) adalah persatuan haram berdasarkan peraturan dan perlembagaan penubuhan persatuan.

FAS telah mengadakan Mesyuarat Agung Tahunan (AGM) di Hotel Dormani Kuching pada 21 Ogos 2010 untuk pemilihan pucuk pimpinan (presiden) dan ahli-ahli majlis tertinggi persatuan itu.

Walaupun dilihat mesyuarat agung itu berjalan dengan lancar, tetapi ada kecacatannya kerana Persatuan Bolasepak Bahagian Kuching yang belum disahkan pendaftarannya menghadiri mesyuarat itu.

Pemilihan itu menyaksikan jawatan presiden dimenangi oleh Datu Sudarsono Osman yang menewaskan Naib Presiden FAS Dr. Paruwadi Haji Musa dengan kelebihan enam undi.

Datu Sudarsono merupakan Pengerusi Kumpulan Pengurusan Bola Sepak Sarawak (FMG) Sdn Bhd (sebuah syarikat berkaitan kerajaan – GLC) ditubuhkan di bawah Kementerian Pembangunan Sosial dan Urbanisasi (KPSU) Negeri Sarawak.

Sufizal serahkan gelaran juara Piala Sarawak 2010 kepada Kuching

Pemain simpanan Sarawak Sufizal Ismail telah menghampakan pasukan BDR FC dari Samarahan apabila pemain tersebut gagal menyempurnakan dua peluang keemasan untuk meranapkan peluang pasukan lawan Kuching memenangai Piala Sarawak dalam perlawanan akhir yang berlangsung petang tadi.

Keputusan perlawanan masih terikat 0-0 sehinggalah ke separuh masa kedua apabila Macswyzee Riot berjaya mengambil kesempatan dari pergelutan di depan pintu gol untuk meletak Kuching di hadapan.

Walau bagaimanapun kegembiraan Kuching tidak berpanjangan apabila Abang Mohd Zafari Abang Othman berjaya membuat jaringan kira-kira 10 minit selepas itu.

Pada ketika peminat merasakan perlawanan akan berkesudahan dengan jaringan 1-1, Sufizal telah memeranjatkan pemain pertahanan Kuching apabila berjaya membolos kawalan ketat untuk berdepan dengan penjaga gol Awang Mohd Tarmizi.

Malangnya, pemain muda tersebut gagal menyempurnakan peluang apabila bola gagal dihantar kearah kawasan kosong di bahagian pintu gol tetapi terus kepada Awang Mohd.

Nigerian footballer sentenced to death in Malaysia

Posted on October 23, 2010, Saturday

SHAH ALAM: A Nigerian footballer-turned-drug trafficker was sentenced to death by the High Court here yesterday, after he was found guilty of trafficking in 530.14 grammes of heroin in Puchong last year.

Justice Datuk Abdul Alim Abdullah said at the end of defence case, Danny Phiri, 25, had failed to raise any reasonable doubt on the prosecution case.

He was charged with drug trafficking under Section 39B(1)(a) of the Dangerous Drug Act 1952, which carries the mandatory death sentence upon conviction.

He had committed the offence at an apartment unit of Block A-3A-08, Koi Tropikana, 3rd mile Jalan Puchong, Puchong at 12.35am on May 15, last year.

According to the facts of the case, the police, acting on a tip-off, had forced their way into the apartment unit and detained the accused and his Filipina girlfriend.

Piala Sarawak 2010 - Keputusan Perlawanan Hari Ini

KUCHING:

(a) Sri Aman seri dengan Mukah 3-3 (Stadium Sarawak)
(b) Limbang seri dengan PDRM 2-2- (Stadium Negeri)
(c) BDR (Samarahan) kalahkan Miri 4-0 (Padang C)
(d) DBKU kalahkan Sibu 3-0 (Padang D)

Piala Sarawak 2010 - Sibu tidak gentar hadapi DBKU

Utusan Borneo 10 Oktober 2010

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Piala Sarawak 2010 - PDRM akur kekuatan Samarahan

Utusan Borneo 19 Oktober 2010

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Kapit retains Yayasan S’wak Gold Cup

by Perry Ragam.

Posted on October 18, 2010, Monday

KUCHING: Defending champion Kapit proved their mettle once more when they successfully retain the championship title in the Yayasan Sarawak Gold Cup football tournament held at the Sarawak Stadium here yesterday.

CONGRATULATIONS: Tun Salahuddin (right) presenting prize to a team manager.

In the final, the Kapit football squad defeated the Samarahan team 5-4 in the penalty shoot-out of the annual football tournament organised in conjunction with the 89th birthday celebration of the Head of State Tun Datuk Patinggi Abang Muhammad Salahuddin.

Miri told to play their best in S’wak Cup

New Sarawak Tribune - Sunday, 17 October 2010 00:00 Nur Aishah binti Zainal

MIRI: Miri football team were urged to play their best in the Sarawak Cup 2010 football tournament which will be held in Kuching starting today until Oct 24.

“Do not take this matter lightly, instead take the game seriously,” said vice president of Sarawak Football Association cum Miri team manager, Sazali Abdul Rahman.

He reminded the players not to waste their efforts of training for two months and hoped the team would go far in the tournament.

Meanwhile, according to manager of Fatimah Bersatu Sdn Bhd, Mahdi Abdul Rahman, the team must improve their development and performance.

“I hope this effort would bring good results and allow another company to develop this sport,” he said when handing over the sponsorship to the Miri football team for the tournament at Park City Everly Hotel, here, yesterday.

Led by their captain, Mohd Fadly Kassim, the players who on average are 18-years have- been given high expectations to win the tournament.

 

Pay locals more: Awg Mahyan

Hussin Abdul Rahman
Wednesday, 13 October 2010 13:17

KUCHING: Many football fans, especially those in the Peninsula, think they know a lot about Awang Mahyan Awang Muhammad, the coach synonymous with the war-cry Ngap Sayot.

Or the coach who bravel y jumped into the Sarawak River when Sarawak famously qualified for their first Malaysia Cup semifinal back in the 80s.

But Awang is more than the coach wrongly associated with robust tactics, as many opposing teams had claimed when they were defeated by Sarawak then.

The man, who is now more involved with lawn bowls and cricket (he’s the president of both the sports’ state bodies) and taking care of Sarawak referees, is a sophisticated character when it comes to football.

Awang, during a chat while he was watching the Kuching under- 14 cricket final between SMK Bandar Kuching 2 and SMK Muara Tuang last week, was refreshingly open and thoughtful when probed on football matters and coaching.

Jadual Perlawanan Piala Sarawak 2010

Kumpulan A

1 BDR lwn Sarikei 18 Okt 3.30pm Std Negeri
2 Miri lwn BDR 19 Okt 3.30pm Padang C
3 Sarikei lwn Miri 20 Okt 3.30pm Std Sarawak

Kumpulan B

1 DBKU lwn Betong 18 Okt 3.30pm Std Sarawak
2 Sibu lwn DBKU 19 Okt 3.30pm Padang C
3 Betong lwn Sibu 21 Okt 3.30pm Std Sarawak

Kumpulan C

1 Mukah lwn Kuching 18 Okt 3.30pm Padang C
2 Sri Aman lwn Mukah 19 Okt 3.30pm Std Sarawak
3 Kuching lwn Sri Aman 21 Okt 3.30pm Padang D

Kumpulan D

1 PDRM lwn Samarahan 17 Okt 8.00pm Std Sarawak
2 Bintulu lwn Limbang 18 Okt 3.30pm Padang D
3 Limbang lwn PDRM 19 Okt 3.30pm Std Negeri
4 Samarahan lwn Limbang 20 Okt 3.30pm Padang C
5 PDRM lwn Bintulu 20 Okt 3.30pm Padang D
6 Samarahan lwn Bintulu 21 Okt 3.30pm Padang C

Suku Akhir
1. Johan Kump A lwn Naib Johan Kump C 22 Okt 3.00pm Std Negeri
2. Johan Kump B lwn Naib Johan Kump D 22 Okt 3.00pm Padang C
3. Johan Kump C lwn Naib Johan Kump A 22 Okt 3.00pm Std Sarawak
4. Johan Kump D lwn Naib Johan Kump B 22 Okt 3.00pm Padang D

Separuh akhir
5. Pemenang 1 lwn Pemenang 2 23 Okt 3.00pm Std Sarawak
6. Pemenang 3 lwn Pemenang 4 23 Okt 3.00pm Std Negeri

Perlawanan Akhir
7. Pemenang 5 lwn Pemenang 6 24 Okt 3.00pm Std Sarawak 

MY HONEST OPINION: SFFC mesti berubah

Dalam tempoh terdekat ini kita telah melihat perubahan demi perubahan berlaku dalam 'dunia' bolasepak Sarawak.

Kini kita telah mendapat seorang presiden Persatuan Bola Sepak (FAS) baru yang berwibawa Datu Sudarsono Osman.

Dan kita juga telah melihat FAS mengambil inisiatif untuk memulakan 'kehidupan' baru bolasepak dengan mendekati Persatuan Pengadil Bolasepak Sarawak (Safra) yang diketuai oleh pencipta Ngap Sayot Awang Mahyan Awang Mohamed.

Jahar: Sarawak suntuk penjaga gol berwibawa

by Wan Ali Amit.
Posted on August 3, 2010, Tuesday

KUCHING: Dalam sejarah bola sepak Sarawak, tiada seorang pun penjaga gol yang menyarung pasukan negeri benar-benar dianggap berwibawa justeru mampu memantapkan benteng terakhir pasukan.

Program pembangunan bola sepak perlu ambil kira keperluan ini

Sarawak meniti era gemilang (1980-an) dalam dunia bola sepak tatkala pasukan Ngap Sayot di bawah bimbingan jurulatih tempatan, Awang Mahyan Awang Mohamad mampu meletakkan pasukan kita sebaris dengan pasukan terbaik di persada bola sepak tanahair.

Kejayaan Ngap Sayot beraksi dalam Piala Malaysia merupakan satu pencapaian cemerlang buat pasukan negeri yang ketika itu dibintangi ramai pemain berkaliber termasuk penjaga gol, Affendi Jol.

Foreign imports to make comeback in 2012

Borneo Post - Posted on October 1, 2010, Friday

SHAH ALAM: Foreign players who were barred from playing in the M-League, are expected to make a comeback in 2012 but certainly not in 2011 said the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM).

The FAM competition committee will propose to the FAM Executive Council that the ban remain for the 2011 season.

Competition committee chairman Datuk Hamidin Mohd Amin said the decision was made although all the affiliates of FAM had unanimously agreed that the presence of imported players would inject excitement and enhance the M-League.